Product overview
The T226 mobile phone is designed to include an impressive set of features for a very reasonable price. The focus is on messaging, music, gaming, imaging, and connectivity. EMS picture messaging (text messaging with pictures and sounds), email, MMS (Multimedia messaging), and a
This phone offers a fast and satisfying mobile Internet experience.The T226 is a dual band (850/1900MHz) phone scheduled to be available during the third quarter of 2003.
Key functions and features
Multimedia Messaging - Digital greetings
Reacting to the enormous popularity of mobile phone messaging, Sony Ericsson has incorporated the latest messaging standards into the T226 phone, along with a color display for an enhanced imaging experience.
Say it in words, say it with pictures, animate it, add sound. Multimedia birthday and holiday greetings are great fun to put together using your phone. On vacation, use your mobile phone and accessories to send a digital postcard with stylized text, digital pictures of where you are, and authentic sound clips to friends and family back home.
With MMS, the subscription applications get more interesting, for example stock information, movie trailers and weather reports.
Polyphonic ring signals
Pleasing to the ear, polyphonic ring signals play several tones simultaneously making a more musical sound. The word “polyphony” means playing with several tones at the same time. Almost all music that we listen to consists of polyphonic melodies. Polyphonic sounds and ring signals are finally becoming widely used in GSM mobile phones.
The T226 will contain several polyphonic ring signals. Users can share ring signals, and download them from the Web.
Early Ericsson mobile phones supported a proprietary
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polyphonic sound format - iMelody.
The development from the iMelody format to the MIDI format means a revolution to the sound quality. The MIDI files are small, and perfect for mobile devices which have limited storage capacity.
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface - is a specification for a communications protocol principally used to control electronic musical instruments. MIDI is today a well known standard used by musicians, composers, arrangers and so forth.
A MIDI signal or file does not contain any music, but instead it contains binary data (information) of how a melody is played. When these data reach a synthesizer, the synthesizer will translate the binary data to music, when connected to an amplifier with speakers so that the sound becomes audible.
Please visit www.midi.org for more information.
Downloadable games
Gaming is already a very popular feature in Sony Ericsson phones. In addition to
T226 downloading of games is made possible by a true virtual machine. The Sony Ericsson portal for downloading of free games is accessible via the WAP browser. The openness of the downloadable games solution is dedicated to provide an enhanced gaming experience.
The downloadable games can fully take advantage of the phone’s interfaces, such as TCP/IP, SMS, vibrator and backlights. The virtual machine executes the downloading of games for the optimal game experience. The user can download an unlimited number of games as long as the file system allows it, i.e. until the phone memory is full.
The downloading concept includes certification of the games, which makes it possible to create a revenue chain and favorable business opportunities for network operators and content providers. The virtual machine uses true sandbox technology for highest level of security. The software development kits are available via www.mophun.com
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